...Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) provides on-site courses in public engagement for institutions...tips on using social media as a scientist here. 2) Public engagement - Participate in science festivals and... and outreach If you are comfortable talking in public, volunteer at science festivals. Or engage with...performance. When your institute opens its doors to the public, for example at an anniversary or for Girls’ Day...for 10 busy weeks at media outlets like National Public Radio, WIRED, Scientific American or National Geographic...projects Lastly, if you'd like to directly involve the public in your research projects, you can set up a citizen...

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..., its dimeric nature can interfere with some applications. Several labs have been working to produce monomeric...Image reused from Ando et al. 2023, under CC-BY license.   The Miyawaki lab generated a series of ... for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications. Nature Methods, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038...Chuapoco, Flytzanis, Goeden, et al. 2023, under CC-BY license.   Find the AAV.CAP-Mac plasmid here!   Chuapoco...rats. Figure from Chen et al (2023) under CC-BY license.   Find AAV1-X1 plasmid here! Chen, X., et ...proven itself a good option for essentially all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over ...clone (M2) has been widely used in a variety of applications. Find anti-DYKDDDDK recombinant antibodies here...

...Fig. 2). Individual gRNAs are designed in silico using publicly available gRNA design software and synthesized...highlight some of the reagents that have been made publicly available through Addgene.  What makes CRISPR...over previous genome editing techniques is its simplicity and versatility. CRISPR/Cas9 consists of two ...derivatives of Cas9. Several CRISPR libraries are publicly available through Addgene, with more being added...experiment, the use of appropriate controls, multiple replicates and several cell types can strengthen your results...information on CRISPR screens check out Addgene’s 2016 publication “Practical Considerations for Using Pooled Lentiviral...

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...or DNA base pair mismatches (8-11). For some applications, there cannot be any end-joining activity, and...regions. Why use a high fidelity ligase? Numerous applications have been developed to take advantage of the...Taq and other thermostable DNA ligases. These applications detect specific nucleotide sequences with high...Ligase are not replacements for T4 DNA Ligase in applications such as routine cloning or DNA library preparation...al. "Ligase chain reaction (LCR)-overview and applications." PCR Methods Appl 3.4 (1994): S51-64. PubMed... detection system for direct identification of allelic composition of mutated DNA in a mixed population...to accelerate characterization of nucleic acid metabolic enzymes." Nucleic acids research 44.2 (2015): ...